It's because of user-agent policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy
I think we can discuss this in a more public place like wikitech-l Do you agree? On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: > I think e-mail address is something personal and sensitive and is out of > the reach of CUs and nowhere in Wikipedia is compulsory. Additionally, > Pywikibot may be used in various MW installations of which we don't know > anything in advance. Thus not a very good idea. > > What was the goal of including the username? Is it worth? The price should > not be bigger then the advantage. > > > > 2014-07-10 20:47 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]>: > >> Hello all, >> 1- Don't forget about the bug triage. The blog post just published >> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/10/pywikibot-will-have-its-next-bug-triage-on-july-24%e2%88%9227/> >> so you can read and use it to advertise. >> >> 2- As our talk in here >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Client_code/Evaluations/Pywikibot> >> I want to make a patch to add username in user-agent in header of API >> calls. but only ISO 8859 is being supported and usernames can be anything >> (utf-8). For usernames that might not compatible, people need to put e-mail >> address in user-config.py. Is it okay for you? Any comments? >> >> >> Best >> >> -- >> Amir >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pywikipedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >> >> > > > -- > Bináris > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > -- Amir
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